Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who was gruesomely murdered for flirting with a white woman. Emmett grew up in a working class family, in a segregated neighborhood, in Chicago, Illinois. When he was young, he stuttered a lot because he had polio. Most people who knew him thought of him as a polite, hardworking, helpful young man. When he was 14, he visited his uncle in Money, Mississippi. On August 28, the husband of the woman he flirted with kidnapped him from his uncle’s home. The man, including his half brother, took Emmett to the bank of the Tallahatchie river. Consequently,, they brutally beat him, shot him in the head, and additionally gouged out his eye. Three days later, police fished Emmett’s body out of the river.